/*------------------------------------------------------------------------ * PostgreSQL manual configuration settings * * This file contains various configuration symbols and limits. In * all cases, changing them is only useful in very rare situations or * for developers. If you edit any of these, be sure to do a *full* * rebuild (and an initdb if noted). * * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2023, PostgreSQL Global Development Group * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California * * src/include/pg_config_manual.h *------------------------------------------------------------------------ */ /* * This is the default value for wal_segment_size to be used when initdb is run * without the --wal-segsize option. It must be a valid segment size. */ #define DEFAULT_XLOG_SEG_SIZE (16*1024*1024) /* * Maximum length for identifiers (e.g. table names, column names, * function names). Names actually are limited to one fewer byte than this, * because the length must include a trailing zero byte. * * Changing this requires an initdb. */ #define NAMEDATALEN 64 /* * Maximum number of arguments to a function. * * The minimum value is 8 (GIN indexes use 8-argument support functions). * The maximum possible value is around 600 (limited by index tuple size in * pg_proc's index; BLCKSZ larger than 8K would allow more). Values larger * than needed will waste memory and processing time, but do not directly * cost disk space. * * Changing this does not require an initdb, but it does require a full * backend recompile (including any user-defined C functions). */ #define FUNC_MAX_ARGS 100 /* * When creating a product derived from PostgreSQL with changes that cause * incompatibilities for loadable modules, it is recommended to change this * string so that dfmgr.c can refuse to load incompatible modules with a clean * error message. Typical examples that cause incompatibilities are any * changes to node tags or node structures. (Note that dfmgr.c already * detects common sources of incompatibilities due to major version * differences and due to some changed compile-time constants. This setting * is for catching anything that cannot be detected in a straightforward way.) * * There is no prescribed format for the string. The suggestion is to include * product or company name, and optionally any internally-relevant ABI * version. Example: "ACME Postgres/1.2". Note that the string will appear * in a user-facing error message if an ABI mismatch is detected. */ #define FMGR_ABI_EXTRA "PostgreSQL" /* * Maximum number of columns in an index. There is little point in making * this anything but a multiple of 32, because the main cost is associated * with index tuple header size (see access/itup.h). * * Changing this requires an initdb. */ #define INDEX_MAX_KEYS 32 /* * Maximum number of columns in a partition key */ #define PARTITION_MAX_KEYS 32 /* * Decide whether built-in 8-byte types, including float8, int8, and * timestamp, are passed by value. This is on by default if sizeof(Datum) >= * 8 (that is, on 64-bit platforms). If sizeof(Datum) < 8 (32-bit platforms), * this must be off. We keep this here as an option so that it is easy to * test the pass-by-reference code paths on 64-bit platforms. * * Changing this requires an initdb. */ #if SIZEOF_VOID_P >= 8 #define USE_FLOAT8_BYVAL 1 #endif /* * When we don't have native spinlocks, we use semaphores to simulate them. * Decreasing this value reduces consumption of OS resources; increasing it * may improve performance, but supplying a real spinlock implementation is * probably far better. */ #define NUM_SPINLOCK_SEMAPHORES 128 /* * When we have neither spinlocks nor atomic operations support we're * implementing atomic operations on top of spinlock on top of semaphores. To * be safe against atomic operations while holding a spinlock separate * semaphores have to be used. */ #define NUM_ATOMICS_SEMAPHORES 64 /* * MAXPGPATH: standard size of a pathname buffer in PostgreSQL (hence, * maximum usable pathname length is one less). * * We'd use a standard system header symbol for this, if there weren't * so many to choose from: MAXPATHLEN, MAX_PATH, PATH_MAX are all * defined by different "standards", and often have different values * on the same platform! So we just punt and use a reasonably * generous setting here. */ #define MAXPGPATH 1024 /* * You can try changing this if you have a machine with bytes of * another size, but no guarantee... */ #define BITS_PER_BYTE 8 /* * Preferred alignment for disk I/O buffers. On some CPUs, copies between * user space and kernel space are significantly faster if the user buffer * is aligned on a larger-than-MAXALIGN boundary. Ideally this should be * a platform-dependent value, but for now we just hard-wire it. */ #define ALIGNOF_BUFFER 32 /* * If EXEC_BACKEND is defined, the postmaster uses an alternative method for * starting subprocesses: Instead of simply using fork(), as is standard on * Unix platforms, it uses fork()+exec() or something equivalent on Windows, * as well as lots of extra code to bring the required global state to those * new processes. This must be enabled on Windows (because there is no * fork()). On other platforms, it's only useful for verifying those * otherwise Windows-specific code paths. */ #if defined(WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__) #define EXEC_BACKEND #endif /* * USE_POSIX_FADVISE controls whether Postgres will attempt to use the * posix_fadvise() kernel call. Usually the automatic configure tests are * sufficient, but some older Linux distributions had broken versions of * posix_fadvise(). If necessary you can remove the #define here. */ #if HAVE_DECL_POSIX_FADVISE && defined(HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE) #define USE_POSIX_FADVISE #endif /* * USE_PREFETCH code should be compiled only if we have a way to implement * prefetching. (This is decoupled from USE_POSIX_FADVISE because there * might in future be support for alternative low-level prefetch APIs. * If you change this, you probably need to adjust the error message in * check_effective_io_concurrency.) */ #ifdef USE_POSIX_FADVISE #define USE_PREFETCH #endif /* * Default and maximum values for backend_flush_after, bgwriter_flush_after * and checkpoint_flush_after; measured in blocks. Currently, these are * enabled by default if sync_file_range() exists, ie, only on Linux. Perhaps * we could also enable by default if we have mmap and msync(MS_ASYNC)? */ #ifdef HAVE_SYNC_FILE_RANGE #define DEFAULT_BACKEND_FLUSH_AFTER 0 /* never enabled by default */ #define DEFAULT_BGWRITER_FLUSH_AFTER 64 #define DEFAULT_CHECKPOINT_FLUSH_AFTER 32 #else #define DEFAULT_BACKEND_FLUSH_AFTER 0 #define DEFAULT_BGWRITER_FLUSH_AFTER 0 #define DEFAULT_CHECKPOINT_FLUSH_AFTER 0 #endif /* upper limit for all three variables */ #define WRITEBACK_MAX_PENDING_FLUSHES 256 /* * USE_SSL code should be compiled only when compiling with an SSL * implementation. */ #ifdef USE_OPENSSL #define USE_SSL #endif /* * This is the default directory in which AF_UNIX socket files are * placed. Caution: changing this risks breaking your existing client * applications, which are likely to continue to look in the old * directory. But if you just hate the idea of sockets in /tmp, * here's where to twiddle it. You can also override this at runtime * with the postmaster's -k switch. * * If set to an empty string, then AF_UNIX sockets are not used by default: A * server will not create an AF_UNIX socket unless the run-time configuration * is changed, a client will connect via TCP/IP by default and will only use * an AF_UNIX socket if one is explicitly specified. * * This is done by default on Windows because there is no good standard * location for AF_UNIX sockets and many installations on Windows don't * support them yet. */ #ifndef WIN32 #define DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR "/tmp" #else #define DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR "" #endif /* * This is the default event source for Windows event log. */ #define DEFAULT_EVENT_SOURCE "PostgreSQL" /* * Assumed cache line size. This doesn't affect correctness, but can be used * for low-level optimizations. Currently, this is used to pad some data * structures in xlog.c, to ensure that highly-contended fields are on * different cache lines. Too small a value can hurt performance due to false * sharing, while the only downside of too large a value is a few bytes of * wasted memory. The default is 128, which should be large enough for all * supported platforms. */ #define PG_CACHE_LINE_SIZE 128 /* * Assumed alignment requirement for direct I/O. 4K corresponds to common * sector and memory page size. */ #define PG_IO_ALIGN_SIZE 4096 /* *------------------------------------------------------------------------ * The following symbols are for enabling debugging code, not for * controlling user-visible features or resource limits. *------------------------------------------------------------------------ */ /* * Include Valgrind "client requests", mostly in the memory allocator, so * Valgrind understands PostgreSQL memory contexts. This permits detecting * memory errors that Valgrind would not detect on a vanilla build. It also * enables detection of buffer accesses that take place without holding a * buffer pin (or without holding a buffer lock in the case of index access * methods that superimpose their own custom client requests on top of the * generic bufmgr.c requests). * * "make installcheck" is significantly slower under Valgrind. The client * requests fall in hot code paths, so USE_VALGRIND slows execution by a few * percentage points even when not run under Valgrind. * * Do not try to test the server under Valgrind without having built the * server with USE_VALGRIND; else you will get false positives from sinval * messaging (see comments in AddCatcacheInvalidationMessage). It's also * important to use the suppression file src/tools/valgrind.supp to * exclude other known false positives. * * You should normally use MEMORY_CONTEXT_CHECKING with USE_VALGRIND; * instrumentation of repalloc() is inferior without it. */ /* #define USE_VALGRIND */ /* * Define this to cause pfree()'d memory to be cleared immediately, to * facilitate catching bugs that refer to already-freed values. * Right now, this gets defined automatically if --enable-cassert. */ #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING #define CLOBBER_FREED_MEMORY #endif /* * Define this to check memory allocation errors (scribbling on more * bytes than were allocated). Right now, this gets defined * automatically if --enable-cassert or USE_VALGRIND. */ #if defined(USE_ASSERT_CHECKING) || defined(USE_VALGRIND) #define MEMORY_CONTEXT_CHECKING #endif /* * Define this to cause palloc()'d memory to be filled with random data, to * facilitate catching code that depends on the contents of uninitialized * memory. Caution: this is horrendously expensive. */ /* #define RANDOMIZE_ALLOCATED_MEMORY */ /* * For cache-invalidation debugging, define DISCARD_CACHES_ENABLED to enable * use of the debug_discard_caches GUC to aggressively flush syscache/relcache * entries whenever it's possible to deliver invalidations. See * AcceptInvalidationMessages() in src/backend/utils/cache/inval.c for * details. * * USE_ASSERT_CHECKING builds default to enabling this. It's possible to use * DISCARD_CACHES_ENABLED without a cassert build and the implied * CLOBBER_FREED_MEMORY and MEMORY_CONTEXT_CHECKING options, but it's unlikely * to be as effective at identifying problems. */ /* #define DISCARD_CACHES_ENABLED */ #if defined(USE_ASSERT_CHECKING) && !defined(DISCARD_CACHES_ENABLED) #define DISCARD_CACHES_ENABLED #endif /* * Backwards compatibility for the older compile-time-only clobber-cache * macros. */ #if !defined(DISCARD_CACHES_ENABLED) && (defined(CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS) || defined(CLOBBER_CACHE_RECURSIVELY)) #define DISCARD_CACHES_ENABLED #endif /* * Recover memory used for relcache entries when invalidated. See * RelationBuildDesc() in src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c. * * This is active automatically for clobber-cache builds when clobbering is * active, but can be overridden here by explicitly defining * RECOVER_RELATION_BUILD_MEMORY. Define to 1 to always free relation cache * memory even when clobber is off, or to 0 to never free relation cache * memory even when clobbering is on. */ /* #define RECOVER_RELATION_BUILD_MEMORY 0 */ /* Force disable */ /* #define RECOVER_RELATION_BUILD_MEMORY 1 */ /* Force enable */ /* * Define this to force all parse and plan trees to be passed through * copyObject(), to facilitate catching errors and omissions in * copyObject(). */ /* #define COPY_PARSE_PLAN_TREES */ /* * Define this to force all parse and plan trees to be passed through * outfuncs.c/readfuncs.c, to facilitate catching errors and omissions in * those modules. */ /* #define WRITE_READ_PARSE_PLAN_TREES */ /* * Define this to force all raw parse trees for DML statements to be scanned * by raw_expression_tree_walker(), to facilitate catching errors and * omissions in that function. */ /* #define RAW_EXPRESSION_COVERAGE_TEST */ /* * Enable debugging print statements for lock-related operations. */ /* #define LOCK_DEBUG */ /* * Enable debugging print statements for WAL-related operations; see * also the wal_debug GUC var. */ /* #define WAL_DEBUG */ /* * Enable tracing of resource consumption during sort operations; * see also the trace_sort GUC var. For 8.1 this is enabled by default. */ #define TRACE_SORT 1 /* * Enable tracing of syncscan operations (see also the trace_syncscan GUC var). */ /* #define TRACE_SYNCSCAN */